New approaches and applications in chemical biology.

The 15th International Symposium on Microsomes and Drug Oxidations: Chemical Biology in the Postgenomic Era--New Approaches and Applications in Mainz, Germany, July 4-9, 2004, had 570 attendees and was nicely organized by Franz and Barbara Oesch and colleagues. At the meeting, 73 different lectures were presented and about 240 posters were shown. This review discusses most of the lectures presented at the Symposium.